Santa Barbara Author-Mentor Novel Workshop

Algonkian Writer Conferences announces the new Santa Barbara Author-Mentor event---a unique and intimate novel workshop that takes place on February 20 - 23, 2014. It provides an ideal mix of experienced professionals dedicated to working one-on-one with aspiring authors to not only teach them the knowledge and skills they must have to be successful, but also provide them with valuable commentary on their completed novel or work-in-progress. 

Faculty include Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Jane Smiley and Robert Olen Butler, literary agent of renown Kimberley Cameron, agent and major film producer Ken Atchity, writer/author and popular columnist Cary Tennis, and Algonkian director and editor, Michael Neff.